Author Question: Amid claims by whites that blacks were innately inferior and vile, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen ... (Read 90 times)

fnuegbu · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

Amid claims by whites that blacks were innately inferior and vile, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen argued:

A) that there was no evidence to support such claims.
B) that relaxing miscegenation laws would eventually enhance black intellectual ability and morality.
C) that slavery was responsible for black inferiority and vileness.
D) that attempting to address such issues while slavery still existed was a waste of time.

Question 2

By the early 1790's approximately ________ of all free blacks in New Orleans were mulatto.

A) 1/4
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) 3/4